Alexandria Liiv

What’s it like to share a space? How does personal space shape our interactions, and how do different bodies negotiate the tension between separation and connection?

Like neighbours interacting over a backyard fence, Soft Fence is a series of structures that explore how spatial and cultural contexts shape our understanding of limits. The project draws from my experience of growing up around wired garden fences and translates their logic into shared environments, reinterpreting their qualities through reclaimed mattress foam. By turning a cold and rigid structure into something soft and tactile, it creates a permeable threshold that suggests privacy, marks personal space without diminishing openness, or becomes a point of encounter and connection. Soft Fence questions fixed boundaries, proposing instead emotionally responsive physical limits that shift alongside human relationships.